Surprise! Our old buddy Glennon Travis has finally resurfaced from the muck. After a few months of selling golf clubs at a country club, Glennon now has a job at the old Riverview Hotel at the corner of West Street and Jane Street in the village. The St. Louis beach bum thought he had hit rock bottom when he was at the Chelsea. Guess again! Now he’s at a real flophouse—not the pretend kind with slumming artists in it. Now Glennon is forced to stand behind a bullet-proof glass partition as he abuses residents. (This is probably a good thing for Glennon, since everyone he meets immediately develops the intense desire to kill him.)
Actually, I’m sure there are a lot of fine people at the Riverview, including some artists, and they certainly don’t deserve this affront to their dignity. For, make no mistake, that’s what it is. Richard Born, for that is apparently who hired the boy again, knows that Glennon is not a qualified or even remotely appropriate manager for a residential building (if he didn’t know it before, then he certainly does now, after the Chelsea fiasco). Born hired Glennon because he wants to empty the Riverview of rent stabilized tenants, and he knows that Glennon has an irritating, abrasive, and obnoxious personality that will make tenants want to move to New Jersey (or shoot themselves in the head) rather than have to deal with him. Though a better career move for him would have been to take a job as night watchman at Ice Station Zero in Antactica, Glennon can now take pride in being a sought-after specialist in the fine art of driving people bat-shit crazy.
Unfortunately for the folks at the Riverview, they don’t have quite so high a media profile as we have here at the Chelsea, which deprives them of an important weapon in combating the greedy developers who are looting the city. Already, according to a Riverview resident’s e-mail, occupancy in the SRO is down from 200 to 50 due to evictions since Born took over. The good news is, residents are fighting back, and have taken a step that we creative types at the Chelsea never thought of, saddling Glennon with the ridiculous nickname of “Gigi” in recompense for the renaming of their august hotel as the insipid-sounding “Jane Hotel” (?!?!) May the ghosts of the Titanic survivors rise up from the briny deep this Halloween and drag Gigi and Born and all their sociopathic ilk down to Davey Jones’s locker where the fish can condo-ize their barnacle-encrusted bones. — Ed Hamilton
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15 responses to “Glennon “Gigi” Travis Surfaces at the Riverview”
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This kid is nauseating. Even months and months after his firing he makes me want to puke just looking at his smug face. I hope those tenants at the Jane get ‘organizized’ and give that spray-tanned poser a taste of his own medicine.
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It was inevitable Glennon would surface eventually.
Shit floats.LikeLike
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Glennon the Snitch ~ Everybody at the Jane better beware of this scum. He’s an informant for the cops
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Glennon we hardly knew ye
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one thing glennon loves is a good stink bom
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pool scum
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repulsive creep
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Glennon “Travesty” brought nothing but discord and hostility to the Chelsea. In fact, Glennon first cultivated the hostility toward residents of the Hotel that David Elder and Andrew Tilley have done their best to emulate. BD brought Glennon in to harass tenants and he managed to do a fair amount of that. But Chelseaites got their licks in, too, before Glennon himself got the shaft.
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E-vile!
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RIVERVIEW HOTEL TENANTS BEWARE!!! Glennon is also abusive toward animals. He harassed one resident by filing a false police report after spotting that resident’s cat in the hallway, and he publicly berated another longtime resident whose very ill dog accidentally made a mess on the floor in the lobby. Needless to say its a small man who resorts to picking on defenseless housepets.
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i wonder if glennon ever married that party girl from new orleans? boy is she a wild one!
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Hey, no fair. Everybody has a past. Glennon, You, Glennon’s Girl, Everybody
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a minimum wage guy with a minimum wage mind. when glennon gets lonely i wonder if he misses his former sidekick juan the desk jockey.
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Hey Chelsea Tenants! Thank you for all your support and advice. We are now organized and often protesting against Sean Mcphearson and his sidekick Glennon “GIGI” Travis. We have a Supreme Court hearing against our SLUMLORDS and City Agencies on 02/27/09. Come join us in a protest today outside our home (The Jane Hotel), Cynthia Rawlings(fashion something) will be at The Jane Hotel hosting a fashion show. Check out The Jane hotel on YouTube!
Peace,
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